Do not forget that the head of Unesco is a Bulgarian (nomad) lady of communist extraction. That explains everything. Not long ago this "lady" almost singlehandedly declared famous Armenian hachkars (cross stones) as Turkish and Azerbaijani cultural heritage. Within her stigmatized world, everything that is not Bulgarian must be Turkish.

How could Harisa be Turkish when it is cooked in a "tonir", i.e. ground dig oven. Since when nomads, a.k.a. turks have had the habit of digging the ground to build up oven, knowing well that their stay in a certain place is temporary?

As reported on this blog the other day, a recent UNESCO decision to add
keshkek, a traditional Anatolian stew usually served on the morning
of weddings, to its "Intangible Heritage" list on behalf of Turkey,
has led to outrage in Armenia, which claims the dish -- known there
as harissa -- as its own. In fact, as the News.Am website reports,
a group of "young Armenian ethnographers are gathering all information
on Harissa so as to appeal this decision."

Feeling burned by UNESCO's decision, another group of Armenians is
now taking steps to safeguard what they believe to be the Armenian
lineage of tolma, stuffed grape leaves or other vegetables, which are
frequently also served in Turkey, where they are known as dolma. As
the Aysor.Am website reports, the president of an Armenian NGO known
as the "Preservation and Development of Armenian Culinary Traditions
Public Organization" is urging the Armenian government to take the
steps necessary to get UNESCO to recognize tolma as part of Armenia's
"Intangible Heritage," particularly in light of what it believes are
Azeri efforts to lay claim to the dish.

This is not the first time the group has raised alarms over who
owns the right to claim tolma and other dishes as their own. From an
article that ran in September on the Arminfo website:

It's time to save the Armenian national dishes, President of the
"Preservation and Development of Armenian Culinary Traditions" Public
Organization Sedrak Mamulyan said during a press-conference on Friday.

He said that many Armenian dishes have been appropriated by the
neighboring nations: Georgia, Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan. "The
Georgians have 'privatized' our khash, the Azeris - piti, the Turks,
Arabs and Moldovans - tolma. We have done nothing to patent our
national dishes. But I hope to restore justice by means of a thorough
study," Mamulyan said.

The Azeris, meanwhile, appear even more focussed on protecting their
cuisine from what they believe are Armenian efforts to encroach on
their culinary territory. Azerbaijan has its own culinary watchdog,
an organization called the National Cuisine Center, whose director,
Tahir Amiraslanov, appears to spend most of his time on an effort to
teach the world that Armenian cuisine is actually Azeri cuisine. In
November, Amiraslanov and his organization chided a Ukrainian publisher
for printing a book called "Armenian Cookery," saying the dishes in
the book were actually Azeri. Before that, Amiraslanov helped "expose"
an attempt by a Russian frozen food company to mislead diners about
the true (that is, Azeri, and not Armenian) origins of one of its
new products.

The plot/the soup/the keshkek/the herisa thickens.Now we have not one comedian, but three stooges talking about “keshkek”, not about our 1001 churches turned to eshek, not keshkek stables.All they have to do now is show us 5000 year old tablet with “keshkek” and “herisa/harisa” written in the Armenian script. Neither of those words are native Armenian. They come to us from the Assyrian and Sanskrit, therefore they may be used by any and all heirs of those languages.See below how in the English version the name ended up as “keshkesh”, to not forget that in the Armenian version some clowns spelled the word as քԵշքԵք with Ե when the original is spelled քԷշքԷկ with the letter Է to sound like the English E as in “end”. not E as in Erebuni. Is there such a letter like Է in the Armenian Alphabet? If not, then why don’t throw it out once and for all??Moreover, the above clowns should worry about how many of their neighbors have enough money to eat keshkek and herisa daily.http://www.armeniano...l_heritage_ngosAnd the Armenian version;http://www.armeniano...l_heritage_ngos

News | 05.04.12 | 11:24 National Heritage: Initiative group forms in Armenia to protect non-material cultural values By Gohar AbrahamyanArmeniaNow reporter Two Armenian NGOs along with a number of experts have formed a working group for the purpose of enhancing the profile of Armenian cultural heritage, carrying out research and raising public awareness of large masses in order to resist neighboring countries’ attempts at appropriation. The authors of the initiative – Development and Preservation of Armenian Culinary Traditions and Generation for Armenian Identity Preservation Union NGOs – told the media on Wednesday that the neighboring countries’ multiple attempts of recent years to “appropriate Armenian cultural values” have prompted the formation of such a group. “National cuisine is one of important factors of national identity, and our neighbor states, well aware of that, are infringing on our non-material cultural values, claiming them as theirs for the purpose of national identification and international recognition. Namely, it is about Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan which attribute a number of Armenian dishes to their nations. An organized and systematic approach should be shown to be able to prevent such processes,” said Sedrak Mamulyan, head of the Development and Preservation of Armenian Culinary Traditions (DPACT) NGO. Not so long ago one of most popular national Armenian dishes – harisa – was put on UNSECO’s world heritage list in the category of non-material heritage as the Turkish dish keshkesh (a variety of harisa), which has outraged ethnographers and culinary experts in Armenia. The initiative group members say Georgians have applied to UNESCO to recognize pottery as their national craft, while only a few years ago the world’s oldest winery was discovered in Armenia. Moreover, a Georgian MP has made a statement that Georgia should be declared the motherland of honey. “We are going to meet and define duties and responsibilities, make assignments and start working, proceeding stage by stage. We are planning on publishing articles and shooting a film,” said DPACT Secretary Vahe Antanesyan, calling on all those individuals, non-governmental organizations and state bodies who are interested in the preservation of Armenian cultural heritage to join the group. Initiators say with regret that until now no traditional Armenian dish has been documented as such, while in Georgia it is a state policy. According to historian and analyst Ruben Nahatakyan, “we are in the middle of the war of civilizations”, hence “our not so friendly neighbors are trying to rob the entire Armenian highland, both the territories that are part of the Armenian Republic and those that aren’t”. Consequently, the historian believes, the Armenian civilization is endangered. “A neighbor will always take what’s yours if you don’t protect it; and today we are dealing with neighbors who are acting upon a well-thought strategy, and we keep failing to resist their plots,” says Nahatakyan, adding that a solution to the issue requires state care and systematic measures.

The Food Wars continue, only this time they get hotter by the day.The adage goes-If you can’t stand the heat get out of t he kitchen-Maybe we should heed to the above advice and stop making bigger fools of ourselves, like some fools think they can fool ourselves and the world saying that those furkish names are from the Urartuan.Wait till they get a hold of those so called Armenian cook book where the names are not from furksky to russky, and turns us to minced meat/khiyma/ghiyma/mssaghats.You don’t believe me ? Look here and tell us how many Armenian words/names you see;http://www.thegutsygourmet.net/kheyma.htmlhttp://www.thegutsygourmet.net/armenian.html======http://www.eurasianet.org/node/66412&#12288;

AZERBAIJAN VOWS TO TAKE ON ARMENIAN "CUISINE PLAGIARISM"

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/66412&#12288;&#12288;January 16, 2013 - 3:57pm, by Yigal Schleifer Kebabistan Eating inAzerbaijan Food and Conflict Food and politicsAzerbaijan may be surrounded by simmering geopolitical crises, butthe country's Ministry of National Security knows what the realchallenge facing the country is: Armenian "plagiarism" of Azerinational cuisine. The ministry, which is responsible for Azerbaijan'sintelligence and counter-intelligence efforts, recently unveiled"Three Points," a documentary it was involved in making which, asone Azeri website described it, is "about the Armenian plagiarismof the Azerbaijani national cuisine and historical realities." TheTrend.Az website reports on the film's recent Baku premiere, held atthe ministry's "Cultural Center":In his speech, Chief of the National Security Ministry's office, MajorGeneral Farhad Vakhabov stressed that Armenians not only occupiedAzerbaijani lands, destroyed cultural and historical monuments in theoccupied territories, but also change the place names, misappropriateAzerbaijani national values - folklore, gastronomy, music, presentingit as their own to the world public."The National Security Ministry, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism,the Copyright Agency and other relevant bodies are fighting thisphenomenon hard," he said.Farhad Vakhabov said that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev andpresident of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva have aspecial role in promoting and developing the national values.Head of "Azad Azerbaycan" TV and Radio Company Vugar Garadaghli saidthat the project aims to inform the world community about the trueessence of the Armenian plagiarism regarding Azerbaijani nationalcuisine and historical realities.The Ministry of National Security's involvement in protectingAzerbaijan's cuisine from Armenian "theft" is perhaps not sosurprising. As described in a previous post, Azerbaijan has alreadyestablished a governmental organization called the National CuisineCenter, a kind of culinary watchdog whose main mission it appearsis to be on the lookout for Armenian efforts to claim Azeri dishesas their own. It's an effort that Azeri officials apparently believedeserves even more resources devoted to it.&#12288;Speaking of fools look what these clowns did.Click on ABOUT to HISTORYhttp://www.akmakbakeries.com/about.htmlHere we spoke how the word akmak/akhmakh is from the Arabic ahhmaq to mean stupid.http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=1629#entry250140&#12288;&#12288;

The decision to include the tradition of Dolma making and sharing in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list does not assume any right to ownership or belonging.

Ethnographer Lernik Hovhannisyan told Artsakhpress that the application submitted by Azerbaijan has no scientific explanation. The inclusion of Dolma making in UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage based on the application of Azerbaijan is most probably a result of the caviar policy.

Speaking about the Armenian origin of Dolma, Lernik Hovhannisyan said that the dish has nothing to do with Azerbaijani culture.

In his words, since the dish is widely spread in Caucasus, Azerbaijan has made an attempt to take it for its own.